Justin Mather
@itsjustmath
All puns intended.
Justin Mather
itsjustmath.net
“Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.” —James Clear
🦊 Finish It
The bridge between two worlds
If you were born in the 80s or 90s, you grew up in a world that doesn't exist anymore.
You remember when friendship meant knocking on someone's door, not sending a text.
When Saturday mornings were made for cartoons, not scrolling feeds.
When happiness came from mixtapes, bike rides, and streetlights telling you it was
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youtu.beReading and storytelling are empathy engines in disguise. They force you to inhabit someone else's inner world—not just understand their actions, but feel how those actions land from their perspective.
There's something profound about how stories work on us. They're not just entertainment or information transfer. They're perspective-shifting
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The question of if a drum machine has no soul keeps coming back to me. No matter how sophisticated the AI gets, how much processing power we throw at photography software, a phone camera hits physical limits that no algorithm can overcome. Real bokeh requires actual optics, actual distance, actual light behaving according to physics.
There's
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I don't think enough people consider the constraints when choosing their creative medium. I was contemplating whether to make productivity videos, but then realized the overhead would be significantly less with written content. This got me thinking about the literal and metaphorical weight of different media.
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Its also interesting to think about the infrastructure, dependencies needed to “host” these things into the future.
“the reason you would create something is because you love it enough to see it exist.”
Areal
I wanted an AI to do my chores so I could do art, but AI makes art, and I still have to do my chorеs.
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